7heo 6mo ago • 78%
Hi! Great post, good research with sources, great initiative, thank you. 🙏
7heo 6mo ago • 50%
You know that repeating what you're being told verbatim isn't an argument, right? I have a hunch you're not really clear on the meaning of the word "substance"... Parroting concepts defined in books, without the actual substance from the book, or without your own interpretation, is about as useful as a page number without a title...
So far, aside from vague conceptual buzzwords, you have contributed nothing else than "I know you are, but what am I?".
So, again, let's cut short, this ain't Mario, I don't have several lives to try again. Thanks.
7heo 6mo ago • 100%
Oh, I thought they wrote the *removed*
text verbatim... My bad.
7heo 6mo ago • 50%
I only downvoted you because I very honestly find your rhetoric dangerously wrong.
I have nothing personal against you, but you unfortunately answered nothing of substance, so I will elect to agree to disagree, and stop wasting each other's time. 🙂
7heo 6mo ago • 100%
So, OK, I'm willing to learn: please show me good brands then.
They need to resist to mud (thick mud, the kind with a ton of suction that will keep your soles when you try and move), seawater, rocks and sand, and pretty dense vegetation.
They also need to have steel toe caps, good soles (vibram or equivalent if possible) that don't slip, and that aren't too hard (wet stone is enough of a female dog as it is), and to go higher than my ankle.
The best brand I tried so far was caterpillar, but they lasted only 3 years. That's a far cry from "a decade or more".
7heo 6mo ago • 100%
Exactly. Nah, we just gotta have man made monoculture everywhere, or a desert, right? So that, in the end, it just amounts to deserts anyway. Yay. 😶
7heo 6mo ago • 66%
That, plus all the obvious propaganda, dogmatic echo chambers, and people who misspell stuff voluntarily, or make extremely basic mistakes ("your wrong", "its that", "there logic", etc) more than once.
7heo 6mo ago • 62%
Yeah so, the amount of meals is correct. But that's about it. I mean, I can't say about the taste, to each their own, but one kg of cow meat needs two dozen kg of grain.
That's about as inefficient as it gets.
As for the leather, the industry doesn't like products that last a decade, so it isn't actually using the leather in such a way. Industrial leather boots last a year tops.
Finally, pet food is made out of discarded cuts of meat, the uglies, etc. But also lots of cereals, and vegetables.
So we could really afford eating less meat. It isn't good for anything. Not for us, not for the other species (certainly not for the cows, that get often half assed butchered in a hasty way because of quotas and profit), and absolutely not for the ecosystem.
But I guess the taste is all that matters.
7heo 6mo ago • 93%
I saw the image first. But as I checked the username, I already knew it was you.
Quality meme, as always. 👌
7heo 6mo ago • 100%
"I'm afraid that's not a choice..."
7heo 6mo ago • 90%
Yeah, ♡♡♡♡♡ian princes will be mad disappointed.
BTW, cool meta-use of removed internet censorship to illustrate your point.
7heo 6mo ago • 50%
There are 2781 billionaires. That's it. 2781. Saying they are a subset of the bourgeoisie is like saying that saying that a blade of grass is a subset of a forest.
Technically, one could argue that a single molecule in a forest is a subset of the forest, but by any rational standard, a subset of something needs to exhibit similar properties. It needs to be relatable.
And compared to billionaires, the bourgeoisie isn't different from any of us. They are pawns, they are poor, and they are negligible.
The actual bourgeoisie, as in the texts you probably have read, and take this concept from, is a thing of the past. It is gone. In our modern world, their wealth has to be extracted differently, but it has to be extracted too.
The discrepancy between billionaires and the rest, in wealth (US$14.2 trillion out of US$110 trillion - the Gross World Product, GWP - (or 12.91%); or out of US$184 trillion - the world's GDP in terms of PPP - (or 7.72%)), or in demographics (2781 people among 8100000000 (or, 0.000034%)) is making them a glitch.
To illustrate my point better (or at least try to), if we were to divide the entire planet according to that monetary value, each of those billionaires would own between 0.02‰ (GDP) and 0.05‰ (GWP) of the entire planet, on average. That's equivalent to slices of the planet of 36 arcseconds (GDP) or 1 arcminute (GWP), on its entire latitude, and up to its rotation axle, per billionaire. Those would respectively correspond to slices 1.11km or 1.86km wide at the equator, or 789m or 1.31km wide at 45° latitude.
So, they are not part of our system, of the stupid LARP we all decided to play. They are on the side of it, exploiting it and making friends with the admins. They are not different from 14 year olds who found an infinite money glitch in an online game and keep pressing the fucking button over an over as if it would stop their parent's divorce.
Eliminating class distinctions will not eliminate the existence of the billionaires. They will still have the same wealth, and so, the same power, because their wealth, or power, does not come from their status, as it used to; or as it does in the literature you are very likely (given the Marxist Leninist roots of this corner of the internet) basing yourself upon. It comes a psychotic abuse of systemic glitches.
Almost none of the literature you can find on the subject of classes will account for this. It is all so outdated it is irrelevant.
More than irrelevant, it is critically dangerous. Saying that "eliminating classes distinctions eliminates the existence of billionaires" is not just wrong: it is giving billionaires an opportunity to gaslight us further by pretending not to be the problem.
7heo 6mo ago • 100%
It happens to the best of us 🙂
7heo 6mo ago • 50%
The bourgeoisie is bad.
But the real problem are the billionaires.
Don't mix the two, killing all the bourgeois will not help us now. I'm not saying it should be off the table, I'm saying it would be a red herring the billionaires would likely employ to save their asses.
#killallbillionaires.
Alternatively, tax all worth beyond 1 billion at a 100% rate, and kill no one.
Let's see which happens first...
7heo 6mo ago • 85%
Also, could you please update the title of your fediverse post? The article now says 21k 🙂
7heo 6mo ago • 70%
Glad to learn that HTTP/0.9
is still "in use globally" then. A bit surprising, but since it's all about stretching definitions past what is reasonable, for the sole purpose of having the last word, let's shoehorn anything into anything to the infinity and beyond!!! 🤡🚀
7heo 6mo ago • 93%
If you need to provide tools that cross security boundaries then [...] a small web app is better [than sudo].
A web app? Effin really!!? 🤨
7heo 6mo ago • 66%
“Can’t share item,” was the header. “You cannot share this item because it has been flagged as inappropriate,” read the body text.
FAFO.
We've been fanfaring for a decade and a fucking half for people not to see "the cloud" as a miracle solution, and to use it carefully. We've been warning that it is a blatant invitation to vendor lock in, that it is singlehandedly creating oligopolies, and that exactly this would happen.
Did people listen? No. Did they aggressively confront (or passive-aggressively ostracise) us? You bet your bottom dollar they did.
And now? Now they come around with surprised_pika.gif
faces and whine to whoever listens that they are victims, and that they couldn't "possibly have seen this coming".
No. They are enablers of abusers, they themselves abused anyone with even a modicum of common sense, and they brought this upon themselves a thousand times over.
FAFO. And at this point, reading such story fills me with the most powerful schadenfreude I have ever experienced.
Edit: I was searching for a "meta" community, since this is a post on Lemmy about current Lemmy limitations... But it turns out that this might very well be off topic. I apologise if it is the case... I would gladly take suggestions on what community would be best for this post, BTW.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/1ajd915/searching_for_halo_on_instagram/
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Nobody posted it, I waited, but since this is pretty relevant, here it is.
[Tweet: 2023-08-16T06:09:52.483Z](https://oduwsdl.github.io/tweetedat/#1691693740254228741) [Video: 2023-08-16T10:33:44Z](https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F0cTpTMl8kFY&submit=true)
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Hello everyone, I have discovered SimpleX Chat (nothing to do with XChat or HexChat, or the favorite letter of some dumb billionaire), and it appears being a legit good effort at providing good privacy while retaining "mainstream" usability. And it has been audited (by one company so far, it seems). The only concern I have is with regards to battery life (given that it has to maintain roughly as many open connections as you have contacts, AFAICT). Has anyone here used it? Any opinion?
Disclaimer: I know the flag looks like shit. I didn't really try and make a well done, symmetric n**i flag. The entire point is to illustrate the general intent, not to make a symmetric "asshole flag". Edit: the sample size isn't that big yet, but around 20% (19.51% as of this edit) of downvotes is definitely uncannily aligned with the [average percentage of far right voters](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/636C/production/_109625452_eu_far_right_map_010519_map640-nc.png)... (I'd show data from the US too, but you guys haven't yet learned how to count to three in politics... So data is severely lacking.)
To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided. It's her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite. In my view, the cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy). And if Apollo's dev Christian Selig decided that *it wasn't worth it* with an *already established paying user base*, who **already** has *a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings*, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don't see how a small app like IfR can survive. That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake...
From the [tread on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/): > ## Bizarre allegations by Reddit of Apollo "blackmailing" and "threatening" Reddit > > About 24 hours after that call with Reddit, I received [this odd message on Mastodon](https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/mastodon-message.png): > >> "Can you please comment publicly about the internal Reddit claim that you tried to “blackmail” them for a $10,000,000 payout to “stay quiet”?" > > Then yesterday, moderators told me they were on a call with CEO Steve Huffman (spez), and he said the following per their transcript: > >> Steve: "Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million." >> >> Steve: "This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us." > > Wow. Because my memory is that you didn't take it as a threat, and you even apologized profusely when you admitted you misheard it. It's very easy to take a single line and make it look bad by removing all the rest of the context, so let's look at the full context. > > I can only assume you didn't realize I was recording the call, because there's no way you'd be so blatantly lying if you did. > > As said, a common suggestion across the many threads on this topic was "If third-party apps are costing Reddit so much money, why don't they just buy them out like they did Alien Blue?" That was the point I brought up. If running Apollo as it stands now would cost you $20 million yearly as you quote, I suggested you cut a check to me to end Apollo. I said I'd even do it for half that or six months worth: $10 million, what a deal! > > The bizarre thing is - initially - on the call you interpreted that as a threat. Even giving you the benefit of the doubt that maybe my phrasing was confusing, I asked for you to elaborate on how you found what I said to be a threat, because I was incredibly confused how you interpreted it that way. You responded that I said "Hey, if you want this to go away…" Which is not at all what I said, so I reiterated that I said "If you want to Apollo to go quiet, as in it's quite loud in terms of API usage". > > What did you then say? > >> Me: "I said 'If you want Apollo to go quiet'. Like in terms of- I would say it's quite loud in terms of its API usage." >> >> Reddit: "Oh. Go quiet as in that. Okay, got it. Got it. Sorry." >> >> Reddit: "That's a complete misinterpretation on my end. I apologize. I apologize immediately." > > The admission that you mistook me, and the four subsequent apologies led me to believe that you acknowledged you mistook me and you were apologetic. The fact that you're pretending none of this happened (or was recorded), and instead espousing a different reality where instead of apologizing for taking it as a threat, you're instead going the complete opposite direction and saying "He threatened us!" is so low I almost don't believe it. > > But again, I've recorded all my calls with you just in case you tried something like this. > > Transcript of this part of the call: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f915e6a5c7014 > > Audio of this part of the call: http://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-31-end.m4a > > (If you take issue with the call being recorded please remember that I'm in Canada and so long as one participant in the call (me) consents to being recorded, it's legal. If anyone would like the recording of the full call, I'm happy to provide.) > > I bring this up for two reasons: > > - I don't want Reddit slandering me to internal employees or public people by saying I threatened them when they reality is that they immediately apologized for misunderstanding me. > - It shows why I've finally come to the conclusion that I don't think this situation is recoverable. If Reddit is willing to stoop to such deep lows as to slander individuals with blatant lies to try to get community favor back, I no longer have any faith they want this to work, or ever did.
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